The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-27
MOLDER MUTINIES.
Powderly Orders the Men Back at AL
bany-Several Strikes.


LANCASTER, PA, April 26.-The boycott
ed st. Louis stove patterns were received
at the Kelley stove works, at Columbia, this
morning and the molders were ordered to
work on them. All the molders, fifty in
number, Immediately dropped their tools
and left the foundry. The other depart
ments are at work.
OUT AT PEEKSKILL.
PEEKsKtLL, n. Y, April ga strike
among the stovemakers took place this
morning and 800 men quit work. The
! Union Stove Works are closed as are also
| the works of Ramsey q Co.. Southland 81
Bates and Finch 81 Co. The cause of the
! trouble was the reception here of the boy
cotted st. Louis patterns.
ORDERED BACK AT ALBANY
ALBANY, N. Y, April 26--The stove
molders went to work on the struck st.
Louis patterns to-day under orders from
Mr.. Powderly. They will continue in the
shops until a decision on the trouble is
reached by the Executive Committee of the
Knights at Philadelphia tomorrow.
VOTE TO RETURN AT TROY.
TROY, n. Y, April 26--The foundries of
the National Stove Founders Defense AS
sociation shut down to-day, the molders not
reporting for duty. The boycotted st. Louis
patterns We're put in the sand ready to mold.
The molders held a meeting to-day and
voted to return to work tomorrow morning,
but the manufacturers say it is not a sure
thing that they will reopen the foundries.
OUT AT SYRACUSE.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, April 26-Forty mold
ers employed by the Syracuse Stove Com
pany struck last night when asked to work
on the boycotted patterns. Thirty five
molders employed in the Howe stove works
at EnifOn v O11tt
STANDING BY THE MEN.
READING, PA, April 2G-The boycotted
st. Louis stove patterns reached this city
to-day. Orr, Painter & Co.. employing 800
stove hands, have informed the National
Manufacturers Defense Association that they
would not close their works against the
molders for refusing to handle the St Louis
patterns. The effect of this is that the firm
will be required in future to stand alone and
Independent of the Defense Association.
Their molders agreed to-day not to make a
demand for an increase. Sixty molde1s EN-
ployed at the Mount Penn Stove Works in
this city also agreed to remain at work.
At RoierS' Ford four firms belong to
the Defense Association. They employ
altogether 600 hands, and say that if they
ask the men to work on st. Louis stove pat
terms they will pay satisfactory wages The
indications are that there will be no strike
i'll this section.
HITCHES AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, April 26--The boycotted
stove patterns of Bridge, Beach g. Co., Of
st. Louis, have been the all-absorbing topic
of discussion among the stove molders in
this city to-day The employees of the
Abraham Cox Stove Co., numbering over
loo, struck rather than work with the OBJ
jectionable patterns. Thomas Roberts &
Stevenson discharged a number of men who
refused to handle them, and at the Nc
Dowell Stove Co.'S establishment three
men who refused to handle them were dis
charged. Others were found who would
work ON them, however, and no strike will
take place. The Stove Molders' Union of
this city has called a meeting of all the
stove molders for tomorrow night, in or
der TO thoroughly discuss the question of
working on st. Louis patterns, and to OBJ
tam the opinion of the molders generally.